noun
Eurasian herb naturalized in America having white flowers and poisonous hairy foliage and bearing black berries that are sometimes poisonous but sometimes edible
• Syn: ↑black nightshade, ↑common nightshade, ↑poison-berry, ↑Solanum nigrum
• Hypernyms: ↑nightshade
• Hyponyms: ↑garden huckleberry, ↑wonderberry, ↑sunberry, ↑Solanum nigrum guineese, ↑Solanum melanocerasum, ↑Solanum burbankii
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\\ˈ ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷- — see berry\ noun : any of several plants with small inedible or poisonous fruits: as
a. : a shrub of the genus Cestrum
b. : a West Indian shrub (Bourreria succulenta) of the family Boraginaceae with small flowers in corymbose cymes
c. : poisonberry tree
d. : bittersweet 2 a
Useful english dictionary. 2012.